August 10, 1916 
LAND & WATER 
LAND & WATER 
EMPIRE HOUSE, KINGSWAY, LONDON, W.C 
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1916 
CONTENTS 
Cleansing the Temple. By Louis Raemaekers i 
After Two Years. (Leading Article.) o 
Second Year of the War. By Hilaire Belloc < 
Naval Events Reviewed. By Arthur Pollen 12 
Legends of the Marne. By Colonel Feyler 17 
The Future and the Women. By Lady Frances Balfour 20 
Literature since 1914. By W. L. Courtney 21 
Human Nature and the War. By L. P. Jacks 23 
The Worn Grass. (Poem.) By Eden Phillpotts 24 
The Week's Operations. By Hilaire Belloc 2-5 
The Men-at-Arms. By J. H. Morgan 20 
The Old and New Tables. By G. K. Chesterton 31 
Union Jack Club Extension 32 
How Rifleman Brown came to Valhalla. (Poem.) 
By Gilbert Frankau 33 
Two Years Ago. By an Englishwoman in Paris 35 
Greenmantle. By John Buchan 30 
Fifty Millions in War Gifts. By W. E. Dowding 48 
Rebuilding of Belgium. (Illustrated.) By Clive 
Holland ej 
The West End 58 
Town and Country 60 
Choosing Kit xv. 
Motoring and the War. By H. Massac Buist xxiiai 
AFTER TWO YEARS 
THESE two years of war are the prelude to a 
new epoch. Systems of human faith, thought, 
and action have been thoroughly searched ; 
the defences which the social life of the West 
had raised for its own protection have been severely 
tested ; here they have proved rotten and worthless, 
there most unexpectedly impregnable. The shadow has 
gone backward on the dial. That we can see plainly, 
but may we not discern in this disconcerting lapse to 
barbarism a sign that health is to be restored and a 
delivery to be granted from mankind's most dangerous 
foes. For the British Empire the war is one continuous 
epic. At this hour it seems as if those of us who are 
absent from the battle had been summoned to the 
hither bank of old St)^, there to watch our young men 
being ferried by battalions across its black water, pale 
shades who leave behind them as an imperishable gift 
to mankind the colour, warmth, and splendour of their 
strong lives. Only two years ago — such a little space of 
time even in the brief life which is here our portion, a 
mere speck in the long annals of our race — these regiments 
of heroes were young men, lounging through life, with 
a more or less vague object before them. The call came ; 
they answered the summons cheerfully and willingly, and 
now in the fiercest warfare the world has ever witnessed 
they are fighting with serene and indomitable courage 
as the champions of Christendom and the defenders 
of the highest principles of humanity, freedom, justice 
■and truth. 
The British Empire has never bragged about putting on 
shining armour, but she has done it all the same. For 
these New Armies, these millions of wiUing volunteers, 
not one of whom is a straggler in the bloodiest clash of 
arms, are a presage of a strength that has surprised foes 
and friends alike, and feven ourselves to some degree. 
Let the British Fleet continue the guardian of the 
seas, and let a reasonable form of National Service be 
brought into force, and the British Empire will in the 
future have at its command an invincible army of 
five milhons of men which from its very constitution 
cannot be employed for aggression, but which will be ever 
ready to answer the challenge, should international law 
and eternal morality be again infringed and broken. It 
will be an educated army in every sense of the word, 
having learned the full meaning of the horrors and evils 
of war as well as the good that issues from the furnace, 
'ihis knowledge it will pass on to its children. In these 
pages, besides the reviews of the past twelve months of 
the war by our military and naval writers, we have en- 
deavoured to present certain aspects of national life 
which have been altered under the stress of circumstance. 
These changes in mental and physical habits must play a 
big part in the reconstruction that ensues on peace. 
In our opinion it is false and immoral to speak of 
inevitable distress following on the war. To talk of it 
as inevitable is to go half way towards making so. The 
main factors of national life are so entirely different from 
what they were a hundred years ago, that no real com- 
parison can be drawn between the close of the Napoleonic 
wars and the times that are coming. Let us here sum 
up briefly the chief changes since August IQ14 : The 
finest manhood of these islands of its own accord has been 
trained to arms and disciphned ; the industrial popula- 
tion and output has been organised in an unprecedented 
manner ; employment has been found for the whole 
womanhood of the nation, irrespective of class, and 
woman is learning by experience not only her powers 
but her hmitations ; there has been an enormous re- 
distribution of wealth ; our currency has been broadened 
and rendered less rigid through the introduction of 
Treasury notes ; we are beginning to realise wherein the 
true wealth of a nation hes (to give but two instances 
the greater attention now being paid (i) to infant life, 
(2) to agriculture) ; the duty of citizenship has 
been re-taught by circumstance with a new and 
hitherto unknown eloquence ; finally the knowledge con- 
stantly widens that material prosperity is not the first 
and last thing in life worth struggling for. 
Britain is passing silently through the greatest revolu- 
tion in her history, and if out of the new forces now being 
created and released we cannot construct a fabric that will 
withstand the temporary dislocations, which a reversion 
to normal conditions of peace must entail, it will b^ 
entirely due to our own apathy and leave-it-to-chancL- 
habit of mind which brought us two years ago to th; 
edge of a great abyss. But we cannot conceive that this 
will happen again. 
It has been wittily said that the best tribute our 
public men can possibly pay to the navy and army 
after the war would be for all of them, directly peace is 
declared, to perform the Happy Despatch, and to leave 
the ruling of the Empire in the hands of those who have 
assured its security. The young men, they say, should 
decide for themselves which of the elder statesmen and 
elderly politicians, if any, they may desire to retain. 
This is, no doubt, a question for argument, but such 
treatment would certainly not be too drastic for thosL' 
who publicly advocate the German model for 
education or the return to a fiscal system which 
for the doubtful advantage of mere cheapness placed 
the markets and the commercial development of the 
Empire at the mercy of German traders. Germany has 
only worked for her own material good ; her prototype 
has been Dives ; she was to be clothed in purple and 
fine linen and fare sumptuously every day and the other 
nations were to be Lazarus at the gate. And when we 
find British publicists at this time of day seriouslv 
advocating that we should revert to or take over 
systems which despite superficial advantages have been 
proved either degrading or dangerous in practice, then we 
can only exclaim : " Neither will they be persuaded 
though one rose from dead." 
